Ki language

Not to be confused with Amto language.

The Ki language, Tuki (Baki, Oki), is a Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon. It is spoken by 26,000 people in the Central Province of Cameroon, in the Lekie division and in the Mbam and Kim division, along the Sanaga river.^[3]

Ki
Tuki
Native to	Cameroon
Native speakers	(26,000 cited 1982)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Mbam Sanaga Ki
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bag – inclusive code Individual codes: leo – Leti mct – Mengisa (duplicate code)
Glottolog	tuki1240
Guthrie code	A.601 (ex-A.61,64), possibly also A.63[2]

The dialects are Kombe (Tukombe), Cenga (Tocenga), Tsinga (Tutsingo), Bundum, Njo (Tonjo), Ngoro (Tu Ngoro), Mbere (Tumvele)^[3] and possibly Leti/Mengisa^[4] and Mbwasa.

Phonology

Tuki distinguishes six phonetic vowels. It distinguishes between long and short vowels.^[5]

Vowels

	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Close-mid	e	o
Open-mid		ɔ
Open	a

The consonants are as follows.^[5]

Consonants

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar/Glottal	Labiovelar
Stop/Affricate	Voiceless	p	t	t͡ʃ	k	k͡p
	Voiced	b	d	d͡ʒ	g	g͡b
	Prenasalized	ⁿb	ⁿd	ⁿd͡ʒ	ⁿg <ng>	ⁿg͡b
Fricative	Voiceless		s		h
	Voiced	β
Nasal		m	n	ɲ <ny>	ŋ <ng>
Approximant			ɾ	j		w

Grammar

As in most Bantu languages, the noun consists of a class prefix and a stem. Verbs are conjugated for the noun class of the subject and object.^[3] The primary word order is SVO.^[6]